Read more about the article The Jimmy Raye Project: A Story of a Man who carved a path for Black players and coaches

The Jimmy Raye Project: A Story of a Man who carved a path for Black players and coaches

PHOTO: Jimmy Raye today posing as if he had boarded Duffy Daugherty's Underground Railroad in 1964 bound for Michigan State. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report NFL Media's release promoting its February 8 screening of a documentary on Jimmy Raye during Super Bowl week. *** The National Football League is celebrating this Black History Month with a private screening of The Jimmy Raye Project, a special episode of the Emmy Award-Winning series 'NFL 360' that explores how one man's story…

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NFL 360 producing documentary on Jimmy Raye

-30- PHOTO: Tom Shanahan, NFL 360 director/producer Osahon Tongo, Edgar Farmer and Donald Raye. I invite you to visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN I enjoyed spending the day, Tuesday, November 22, at E.E. Smith High in Fayetteville, N.C., at the invitation of NFL 360 director/producer Osahon Tongo. He invited me down as the author of "Raye of Light" for interviews on a documentary on Jimmy Raye, Michigan's pioneering Black quarterback and pioneering Black coach in…

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